Word: bloodbath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blessings of a Soviet collapse would certainly be mixed. Just as the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I led to Hitler's brutal exploitation of the resulting power vacuum, so the end of the Pax Sovietica in Eurasia might touch off an ethnic bloodbath among the squabbling successor regimes. For University of Alabama historian Hugh Ragsdale, a Soviet collapse would lead to a disastrous "Balkanization" of Eurasia and the emergence of "dozens of Khomeinis . . . skulking incognito among the Sufis and dervishes of the region." The disappearance of Soviet influence would probably also hasten the emergence...
Stock indexes fell 1.8 percent in Tokyo, 3.2 percent in London and a steep 12.8percent in Frankfurt, West Germany, where onetrader described trading as a "bloodbath...
...city of Rangoon narrowly avoided another bloodbath last week when club- wielding government troops waded into 1,000 protesters on Martyrs Day, which marked the 42nd anniversary of the death of independence hero Aung San. The government reported that 44 people had been "detained...
...Western and Japanese firms are frozen. Even before the protests erupted, inflation, corruption and unemployment had put a brake on progress; hesitation by outsiders to invest in China will only exacerbate these problems. Said a senior British diplomat: "First, there is the revulsion factor in the wake of the bloodbath that will keep a lot of Westerners away. Second, there is the question of confidence. Deng built that up, and now it lies destroyed. No one is willing to invest unless there is reasonable assurance of stability. Restoring international confidence will be % one of the leadership's toughest tasks...
...soured them on the party's monopolistic rule. "The only way to save the country is to go to a multiparty system," says John Shao, a student at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. He renounced his party membership after witnessing scenes of the Tiananmen Square bloodbath...